San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato

San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato

Mexico is to a great extent the resulting ecuation of spanish catholic principles locally adapted put to practice by silver mining as economic engine. Guanajuato stands out by its architecture, goegraphy, legends and more merging its history with San Miguel de Allende's present day lifestyle

Itinerary

Day 1: Queretaro San Miguel de Allende

Stop At: Templo y ex-convento de la Santa Cruz de los Milagros, Independencia s/n Jardin de los Fundadores. Barrio La Cruz. Centro, Queretaro City 76000 Mexico
XVIth century conventual facilities and lifestyle
Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Palacio de Gobierno Casa de la Corregidora, Plaza de Armas, Queretaro City 76000 Mexico
Colonial buildings ranging from administrarion and government passing by private miner and landowner property to religious commonly sorrounding a square ornamented by fountains
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Plaza de la Soledad, c/ Mesones, San Miguel de Allende 37700 Mexico
Former city center enclosed by SMA's former hospital, university institutions both related to the clergy
Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: El Jardin, San Miguel de Allende Mexico
SMA's mexican Gothic cathedral curious example of indigenous understanding of western forms, Ignacio Allende independence military house museum, Centro Cultural el Nigromante ornamented by David Alfaro Siqueiros and other monuments and buildings
Duration: 1 hour

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.

Day 2: Guanajuato and drive back

Stop At: Diego Rivera Museum and Home (Museo Casa Diego Rivera), Positos No 47 Martes- Sab 10-18:30, Dom 10-14:30, Lunes Cerrado, Guanajuato Mexico
Formally known as Mexico's art history main artist birthplace and house museum
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Monumento al Pipila, Guanajuato Mexico
Mirador and monument oveelooking Guanajuato city next to a funnicular connecting with city center
Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Alley of the Kiss, Patrocinio 58, Zona Centro, Guanajuato 36000 Mexico
Archaetypical alley featuring Guanajuato's architectural design and geography where house balconeys approach so that people line up for a chance to kiss from one to the other
Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Guanajuato School of Mines, Guanajuato Mexico
Colonial life stired around two worlds that of silver mining and religion. Guanajuato's university is a key example of the former
Duration: 20 minutes

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.